Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-21
ODD ITEMS.


Anew kind of writing paper is made
from sawed.
The Omaha Republican recently issued
a Sunday edition of 40 pages.
Some flashes of lightning are believed
to reach length of 10 miles.
A church society has bought the site of
skating rink at Tomah, Wis.
A rsdheaded negro was recently ar
ranged IN an Albany, New York, police
court.
There are over so men in Sioux
Falls, Oak, who weigh over 200 pounds
each.
Secretary Whitney has bought two
dogs, one costing $500 and the other
$1,000.
New York is talking about son who
wears morning because his mother has re-
married.
Sixty thousand carloads of dus5 were
collected by the street sweepers in New
York few days ago.
Among the articles found on the Neg
York elevated railroads the past year were
1900 umbrellas.
The New York Graphic appeared Mon
day without illustrations because of a
strike of its photographers.
Alberga Whitman, of Greensburg, Kan.
is the only negro poet in the state. His
productions are said to be good.
A policeman attends the meetings
OF the colored Methodist church at
Fond du Lac, Wis, in order to preserve
order.
A citizen of Philadelphia, who died
short time ago, complained in his
will because his wife's dowry was not
larger.
The name of Chicago should be changed
to Dublin. There were 262 pairs of twins
born in that city in 1886.
Justice Harlan's SON. who graduated
from Princeton four years ago, is Pres
byterlan minister in New York, on
salary of $4,000 year.
General Sherman is wofully backward
about claiming his usual sxlutation in the
case of the visiting queen.
North Carolina provides her governor
with an official residence, and a new
mansion is to be erected at cost of
$4,000.
There are fewer homes and fewer chill
dren in San Francisco, Cal, than in any
city Of its size in the world. It is prac-
tically mans city.
The largest real estate sale ever made
in Nebraska happened last week at Oma-
ha, when over 615 acres of land near the
city was disposed Of for $615,O00
George Francis Train is going to bring
suit to recover $10,0OO,O 900 worth of prop
erty located in the central pa1t of Kan
sas City, which he says belongs to him.
Robert Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, worth $6,OOO,OO0, lives in plain
brown stone house on Fifty-third street.
New York. He bought the house ready
made.
Three ladies of Mendocino, Cal, while
taking a stroll in the woods one Sun
day, started a deer, which their dog
caught, and the ladies held it and cut
its throat.
A Decatur, Ill, man, who has been test
ing the capacity of the sparrow to with
stand the effects of poison, gave one
bird grain of crystal strychnine with
out effect.
1t is singular fact that when two young
men meet they address each other. Glow
are you old mani" and that when two
old fellows meet they say, "My boy"
M j. L. Schall, of Trinity, CAL, had a
hen whose teeth were filled with gold;
that is to say, he lately killed hen, and
found two pieces of gold among the grit
in her gizzard.
There was recently unearthed at Jack
sonville, ILL.,, while excavations were being
made for the asylum for the insane, an
apple which is believed to have been
buried Ia years.
marble firm at Mattewan, N. Y, has
received from San Francisco model of a
monument which lady wishes placed
over her husbands grave at West Point,
cut from loaf of bread.
An old colored preacher, after exhaust
ing himself On an attempt to describe
heaven, wound up thus: ST tell you, my
brethren, it is very Kentucky of a
place."
A man and his wife have located at
Sparta, Mich, who will make business
of looking after the heads of both sexes.
The husband has opened a barber shop
ard his wife millinery store.
There are only three cities in the world
which have larger Scandinavian popHla-
ton than Minneapolis. They are Chris
tiana, Stockholm and Copenhagen. Min
neapOlis has $4,000 Scandinayians.